82 percent of adult Americans surveyed in March 2004 said that the Federal laws against internet obscenity should be vigorously enforced.Americans STILL want federal obscenity laws enforced! The Morality in Media Newsletter, June, 2004.

The most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web are pop-up windows (55%), misrepresented links (52%), misspelled URLs (48%) and auto links within emails (23%)Fifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work. Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.

While 77% of surveyed people said they thought their computers were well-protected, 4 out of 5 had spyware or adware programs running on their computers. Home PCs not so safe? CNN Money, 25 October, 2004.

According to Datamonitor, over half of all spending on the internet is related to sexual activity. Each day 30 million people log on to pornographic websites. Internet pornography statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2003.

The internet accounted for $2.5 billion of the adult industry’s $14 billion in U.S. revenues in 2004.Dirty Downloads Ready to Go on iPods, Ron Harris, , 2005 Mac News World

70% of 18-to-24-year-old men visit pornographic sites in a typical month. 66% of men in their 20s and 30s also report being regular users of pornography.First-person: the culture of pornography, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Baptist Press, 28 December 2005.

Pornography in the Workplace

More than 75 percent of people at work have accidentally visited a pornographic website, and 15% have visited such sites more than 10 timesFifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work. Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.

63 percent of employees are concerned about the ease of access to objectionable content at workFifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work. Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.

One in 17 children ages 10-17 were threatened or harassed over the internet in 2000Report Statistical Highlights. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Crimes Against Children, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000.

70 percent of sexual advances over the internet happened while youngsters were on a home computerOne in Five Kids Has Been Propositioned for Cybersex. Legal Facts. Vol. 2, No. 3, 2000.

21 percent of teens say they have looked at something on the internet that they wouldn’t want their parents to knowA World of Their Own. Newsweek, 8 May 2000.

A survey of 600 households conducted by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children found that 20 percent of parents do not know any of their children’s internet passwords, instant messaging nicknames, or email addressesAds target online victimization of children. USA Today, 20 May 2004.

Only 5 percent of parents recognized the acronym POS (parent over shoulder) and only 1 percent could identify WTGP (want to go private?), both of which are used frequently by teens when instant messagingAds target online victimization of children. USA Today, 20 May 2004.

Incidents of child sexual exploitation have risen from 4,573 in 1998 to 112,083 in 2004, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenReports of child exploitation up. USA Today Snapshots, 17 February, 2005.

96 percent of kids have gone online; 74 percent having access at home and 61 percent use the internet on a typical dayKids stay connected, USA Today Snapshots. 5 January, 2004.

There are 800 million rentals each year of adult videos and DVDsOverdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. March, 2004.

11,000 adult movies are produced each yearOverdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. March, 2004.

Cable companies brought in revenue of $177 million from sexually explicit pay-per-view programmingNo Big Surge in Sex Programs is Expected From Cable Ruling, Jim Rutenberg. The New York Times, 24 May, 2000.

Condom use in the adult-film industry rose from 17% to 23% after an outbreak of HIV in March 2004; the percentage has since declined again to 17.5%Sex-Film Industry Threatened With Condom Requirement, Nick Madigan. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.

Half of all hotel guests order pornographic movies. These films compromise 80 percent of in-room entertainment revenue and 70 percent of total in-room revenue.Sex-Film Industry Threatened With Condom Requirement, Nick Madigan. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.

Pornography

23 percent of American adults believe “whether one likes it or not people should have full access to pornography under the Constitution’s First Amendment.”No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

51 percent of US adults surveyed believe that pornography raises men’s expectation of how women should look and changes men’s expectations of how women should behave.No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

40 percent of adults surveyed believe that pornography harms relationships between men and women.No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

30 percent of surveyed adults said their partner’s use of pornography made them feel more like a sexual objectMarriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

“A wave of confessionals and self-help guides written by current or former stars of pornographic films is flooding bookstores this year, accompanied by erotic novels, racy sexual-instruction guides, histories of sexual particulars and photographic treatments of the world of pornography.”Sex, Sex, Sex: Up Front in Bookstores Near You, Edward Wyatt. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.

For every 10 men in church, 5 are struggling with pornographyThe Call to Biblical Manhood. Man in the Mirror, 6 July, 2004.

The more pornography men watch, the more likely they are to describe women in sexualized terms and categorize women in traditional gender rolesThe Porn Factor, Pamela Paul. www.time.com. 19 January, 2004.

Median age for the first use of pornography: boys: 11-13 girls: 12-14Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents, Tom Buford. Tommera Press, 2001.

47.78 percent of families said pornography is a problem in their home Focus on the Family Poll, 1 October, 2003.

According to 2004 IFR research, U.S. porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion). Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. The pornography industry, according to conservative estimates, brings in $57 billion per year, of which the United States is responsible for $12 billion.Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.

Non-internet pornography can be purchased or used through the internet and is estimated to produce $20 billion in revenue world wide (IFR, 2004).Internet pornography statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2004.

One out of every six women grapples with addiction to pornographyInternet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.

Playboy’s third quarter profit rose to $3.2 million from $1.9 million in 2005.Porn may be on the way for iPods, Rebecca Barr, www.azcentral.com, 2005